The dual socket IBM Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node delivers major advances in performance, capacity, management simplicity, and networking flexibility to help you keep operating costs down without sacrificing efficiency, reliability or security. For workloads that require a balance of memory, processor, and I/O bandwidth, the variety of Flex System x240 M5 models gives you the flexibility to optimize each resource to adapt to meet your workload’s price/performance ratio target.

There are up to 24 DIMM slots in total, with 12 DIMMs per processor. RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are supported. Memory types cannot be intermixed. There are four memory channels per processor, with 3 DIMMs per channel. One slot contains a removable 16GB module; the others are available.

Expansion bays:(2) 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA baysOptional support for 2.5" NVMe Enterprise PCIe SSDs.Optional support for up to four 1.8" SSDs in place of the two 2.5" bays.Up to 12 additional 2.5" drive bays available with optional Storage Expansion Node.